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Working Paper Series CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS Working Paper Series Working Paper No. 2013-10 The Effect of Corruption on Migration, 1985-2000 Eugen Dimant, Tim Krieger, Daniel Meierrieks March 2013 The Effect of Corruption on Migration, 1985-2000 This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Applied Economics Letters 20(13), pp. 1270-1274, [copyright Taylor & Francis] available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13504851.2013.806776 Eugen Dimant*, Tim Krieger† and Daniel Meierrieks‡ Abstract We examine the influence of corruption on migration for 111 countries between 1985 and 2000. Robust evidence indicates that corruption is among the push factors of migration, especially fueling skilled migration. We argue that corruption tends to diminish the returns to education, which is particularly relevant to the better educated. JEL Classification: D73; F22; O15 Keywords: corruption; migration; skilled migration; push factors of migration * University of Paderborn, Department of Economics, Warburger Straße 100, 33098 Paderborn, Germany. Phone: + (49)5251-60-1682. Fax: + (49)5251-60-1679. E-mail: [email protected]. † Corresponding Author. University of Freiburg, Department of Economics, Wilhelmstraße 1b, 79085 Freiburg, Germany. Phone: + (49)761-203-67651. Fax: + (49)761-203-67649. E-mail: [email protected]. ‡ University of Freiburg, Department of Economics, Wilhelmstraße 1b, 79085 Freiburg, Germany. Phone: + (49)761-203-67653. Fax: + (49)761-203-67649. E-mail: [email protected]. 1 1. Introduction Previous empirical research suggests that, besides socio-economic and demographic factors (e.g., underdevelopment and demographic pressures), politico-institutional conditions (e.g., political instability) are among the push factors of international migration (cf., e.g., Hatton and Williamson, 2003; Mayda, 2010; Dreher et al., 2011; Docquier and Rapoport, 2012). We argue that a related important push factor, which has so far been mostly neglected in both theoretical and empirical research, is corruption. Corruption is associated with a number of unfavorable outcomes. For one, corruption tends to negatively affect a country’s (short-run) level of economic activity.1 Economies plagued by high levels of corruption grow more slowly, e.g., as corruption contributes to an inefficient allocation of resources (Jain, 2001; Campos et al., 2010). For another, corruption may also worsen a country’s (structural) socio-economic situation. For instance, Gupta et al. (2002) find that high levels of corruption promote income inequality and the spread of poverty. Furthermore, corruption may also lead to suboptimal patterns of social mobility when it matters more strongly to upward mobility than actual merits. In sum, the prevalence of corruption is likely to worsen individual working and living conditions for the majority of citizens. It may therefore also matter to the calculus of a potential migrant. Individual education is a particularly important factor influencing migration decisions. Here, corruption tends to lower the returns to education, e.g., by contributing to slow economic growth and unemployment, widespread inequality and the lack of social advancement. Given the irreversibility of human capital investment, corruption may make it more attractive to migrate to recoup one’s individual education investment. Here, we expect the highly skilled to 1 Note, however, that this assessment does not rule out that corruption may actually yield positive economic effects under specific circumstances (Dreher and Gassebner, 2013). 3 be particularly responsive to the prevalence of corruption, given their high level of human capital investment and subsequent need for particularly high (i.e., cost-effective) skill premiums.2 Based on these lines of reasoning, we hypothesize that corruption is among the push factors of migration and particularly relevant to skilled migration. 2. Data and methodology To empirically examine this hypothesis, we compile data on (skilled and average) migration, corruption and further controls for 111 countries between 1985 and 2000. The summary statistics and the operationalization of the controls are reported in Table 1.3 Data on our dependent variables, the migration rates, are drawn from Defoort (2008) who provides estimates of the rates of skilled and average migration to six main receiving countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S.). Here, the skilled migration rate refers to the ratio of the number of skilled emigrants (who exhibit a post-secondary certificate) to the total number of skilled natives aged 25 or older, while the average migration rate is defined as the ratio of the total number of emigrants to the total number of natives aged 25 or older (Defoort, 2008). 2 In addition to that, the increase of income inequality and poverty caused by corruption (Gupta et al., 2002) may foster the political demand for redistribution. As the better skilled are typically the typical net payers of (progressive) income taxes, this may further fuel skilled emigration. 3 The migration data is available only for three points in time (1990, 1995 and 2000). Therefore, we use five-year averages of the explanatory variables (for the 1986-1990, 1991-1995 and 1996-2000 periods) to estimate their influence on migration. 4 5 Corruption data are drawn from the International Country Risk Guide (ICRG, 2009).4 Surveying experts, the ICRG issues a corruption index that we use as our main explanatory variable. Here, corruption refers to financial corruption associated with conducting business (e.g., bribes) as well as other forms of political corruption such as excessive patronage, nepotism and close ties between politics and business. Note that we rescaled the ICRG corruption index, so that higher values correspond to higher corruption levels. To avoid detecting only spurious effects of corruption on migration, we also consider a number of confounding controls that may simultaneously affect corruption and migration. For instance, we control for the effect of economic development, as richer countries are both less susceptible to corruption and less likely to have high migration rates. Following the empirical literature on the determinants of corruption (Serra, 2006) and migration (Docquier and Rapoport, 2012), in our baseline specification we control for the effect of per capita income, population size, regime type and political instability. As robustness checks, we amend this model with additional controls for demographic pressure (youth burden), institutional quality (the quality of a country’s bureaucracy), trade openness and certain country-specific traits that may affect migration costs (colonial ties and distance between sending and destination countries).5 4 We use the ICRG data because it is available since 1984, making a panel estimation approach to the corruption-migration nexus possible. Other corruption measures are available only for shorter time periods. Jain (2001: 77) notes that the various corruption measures are usually highly correlated. 5 Our findings are also robust to the inclusion of further controls for religious fractionalization, oil production, government size, further geographic and historic country characteristics (landlocked location, common language) and education (years of schooling). 6 Initial tests indicate the presence of autocorrelation, heteroskedasticity and cross- sectional dependence, as it is common for panel data with country-year observations. We therefore run a series of pooled OLS and fixed-effects regressions with Driscoll-Kraay standard errors that are robust to these data characteristics (Driscoll and Kraay, 1998).6 3. Empirical results The pooled OLS estimates are reported in Table 2. We find that corruption has a positive and statistically significant effect on both skilled and average migration. However, the marginal effect of corruption on skilled migration tends to be approximately three to four times higher than its effect on average migration. This finding provides first support for our hypothesis that corruption as among the push factors of migration and especially matters to the migration decisions of the highly skilled. The fixed-effects estimates—which truly consider the panel structure of our dataset— are reported in Table 3.7 We find that corruption only has a positive, statistically significant and specification-robust effect on skilled migration, but has no significant impact on average migration. This result further strengthens our previous finding that the decision of the highly skilled to emigrate is strongly affected by the disincentive of corruption at home. 6 We also experimented with instrumental variable (IV) estimations, as reverse causation may be an issue. However, pooled and fixed-effects IV-estimations (where corruption is instrumented by the quality of judicial institutions and the degree of democratic participation) do not indicate that corruption is endogenous to migration. Also, Durbin-Wu-Hausman tests suggests that any endogeneity among the regressors does not bias our estimates. 7 Note that all constant influencing factors (colonial ties, distance etc.) are now subsumed under the fixed effects. 7 8 9 Finally, note that the results for the control variables are largely in line with previous research. For instance, both the pooled OLS and fixed-effects estimates suggest that skilled migration is less common in richer countries, as previously reported in Docquier and Rapoport (2012).
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